And the game does an excellent job of managing your progress in a heist, something that can be challenging as a solo player who can’t ensure you’ll always be playing with the same crew. Heists elaborate setup phases and the necessity of playing them with others adds real tension to the finales, which are inevitably explosive and frenetic even when everything goes right. After robbing GTA’s go-to biker gang, the Lost Motorcycle Club, of some high-end sports bikes, the heist culminates with a bank job reminiscent of the tensest moments of “Heat,” with some of the crew watching the hostages while others crack the vault, before the whole crew mounts the purloined bikes and makes away with one of the highest payouts in the game. Pacific Standard sees players stealing equipment to hack dye packs, lifting a hacking rig from a rival crew, and carjacking armored trucks to grab thermal charges powerful enough to penetrate the central bank vault’s heavy security doors. A relatively straightforward bank heist, it familiarizes players with the basic mechanics of heists and serves as a counterpart to the later, much more complicated (and more lucrative) Pacific Standard robbery, which is easily the best heist in the game.

The heists kick off with the Fleeca Job, which doubles as both a tutorial for how the heists work online as well as nice injection of much needed cash for early players (Heists don’t become available, to host at least, until a player hits rank 12 and owns a high-end apartment).

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